The Washington Examiner‘s Peter Laffin suggested the late Pope Francis did not fit into the American left-right political ...

Late Church leader appointed cardinals from broad range of backgrounds, many of whom are unknown to each other; unclear if ...

The former Israeli ambassador to the Vatican has accused the Israeli government of “boycotting” the funeral of Pope Francis ...

Even from his hospital bed, Pope Francis continued his near-daily video calls in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

CATHOLIC Church sex abuse survivors have no hope in whoever is nominated to lead the Vatican following the death of Pope ...

Pope Francis blessed all from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica — “Urbi et Orbi” (To the city [Rome] and to the world). “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our ...

The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him foreseeing a papabile ahead of his death ...

Pope Francis Laid To Rest At St. Mary Major: World Leaders Gather For Historic Farewell ...

who had clashed with the pope on those issues, sat with the rows of foreign dignitaries on one side of Francis’s coffin in the vast St. Peter’s Square. Among the dignitaries was Israel’s ...

He spent the rest of his pontificate going back out to those peripheries, traveling to more than 65 nations, preferring those that were poor, scarred by war, marginalized and forgotten. Then the ...

Pope Francis smashed the stereotypical profile for a pontiff, becoming the Catholic Church's first leader from the Americas and the first non-European since the eighth century.

Everyone recalled, with Cardinal Re's homily, Pope Francis' words on peace, how war is always a defeat, and on the fraternity that we so often deny, on the need to understand that no one is saved ...